Štulac is a village in the municipality of Lebane, Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 279. On the territory of the small village there are two archaeological sites. One is the Archaeological sites of exceptional importance Iustiniana Prima, a 6th-century Byzantine city built by the emperor Justinian I, and the other is Svinjarička Čuka locality, a Neolithic settlement, discovered in 2017–2018. Location Štulac is located southwest of its municipal seat, Lebane. It is connected to Lebane by the road via the village of Prekopčelica. Geography The village is located on the valley slopes of the Caričin Potok creek. It is scattered between the altitudes of . It is situated in the wider Pusta Reka region. The village rests on the western slopes of the , which here divides the regions of Pusta Reka and Jablanica. On the west, the easternmost slopes of the Radan mountain begin. The village area covers . History The Slavs settled in the area in the 7th century, centering around the ruins of Iustiniana Prima. Due to the lack of water and fires, they left it in the 8th century. The village was mentioned for the first time in 1516, when one of its hamlets, Caričina Mahala was also mentioned. Today, the village of Štulac constitutes a local community (mesna zajednica), a sub-municipal administrative unit, within the municipality of Lebane. Population According to the latest census of population, Štulac had 279 inhabitants in 2011. The population is mostly Serbian. They were settled in the area in 1879, mostly migrating from the regions of Vlasina and Kriva Reka, near Novo Brdo. The village slava is Transfiguration of Jesus, while most spread individual, family slavas are Saint Archangel Michael and Saint Nicholas. Characteristics Štulac is a rural, scattered settlement. It consists of five hamlets: Caričina Mahala, Kodralija, Stojanovce, Donja Mahala and Gornja Mahala. Economically, it is predominantly an agricultural settlement. The village was electrified in 1965, while the water supply is still individual (water wells, springs and local gravitational systems). It has a junior-grade elementary school. Archaeological sites Iustiniana Prima Svinjarička Čuka In 2017 the archaeological "Pusta Reka Project" started, focusing on the beginning of the Neolithic in the Leskovac Basin. It is a collaborative effort between the OREA Institute (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, based in Vienna, and the Institute of Archaeology Belgrade, in